Smartphone makers HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile and Sony Ericssonhave signed agreementsto introduce new NFC-enabled smartphones that adhere to NFC technology standards proposed by Isis, a joint-venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. The agreement means consumers that own an NFC-enabled smartphone manufactured by one of the leading smartphone vendors above will be able to purchase goods and services using a technologies that will be rolled out nationally, with the Isis mobile commerce platform available to all merchants, banks and carriers....

HTC has finally announced its latest 10-inch tablet, the HTC Jetstream, a new 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet that will launch exclusively with AT&T on September 6. The tablet is the first tablet to run Android 3.1, Google’s latest version of the tablet-specific Honeycomb firmware, after Google stopped the release of the previous version due to code issues and an admission it wasn’t ready to market. That aside, the device features a 10....

HTC has unveiled updates to three of its popular Android smartphones, today launching the HTC Desire S, the HTC Wildfire S and the HTC Incredible S. The HTC Desire S is crafted from a single block of aluminium and is powered by a Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 processor, 768 MB RAM and has a 3.7-inch WVGA display. Sporting a 5 megapixel colour camera that can capture 720p HD video, the Desire S also has a VGA colour fixed focus front camera....

Sprint‘s Trevor Van Norman understands product life cycle. As part of Sprint’s product marketing team, he knows that a hot new phone will typically have a 3-4 month run of incredible sales, and then it will start to taper off. Van Norman said that, when it came to the HTC Evo 4G, that simply wasn’t the case. The Evo has had a steady flow of sales and interest since its introduction in June of 2010....

HTC has confirmed reports that it was working on a new Android smartphone targeted at a female audience by launching the new HTC Rhyme, a 3.7-inch smartphone that will launch in the U.S with Verizon by the end of the month. Verizon is scheduled to release the Rhyme on September 29, with pre-orders said to begin on September 22. European and Asian markets are expected to launch the device in October....